The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Achieving Transformational Change
- The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland
- Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa
- The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans
- The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
- ‘Give Us Another MacBride Campaign’: An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland
- Towards Peace in Northern Ireland
- Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland
- Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
- The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland
- Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?
- Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism
- Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
- Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland
- Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland
- Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast
- Appendices: Key Recommendations of
- 1 The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)
- 2 The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985)
- 3 The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)
- 4 The Downing Street Joint Declaration (December 1993)
- 5 The Framework Document (1995)
- 6 The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement (April 1998)
- 7 The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloom.eld, 1998)
- 8 The Patten Report (1999)
- 9 Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, 2002)
- Index
- Images
7 - The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloom.eld, 1998)
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Achieving Transformational Change
- The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland
- Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa
- The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans
- The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
- ‘Give Us Another MacBride Campaign’: An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland
- Towards Peace in Northern Ireland
- Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland
- Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
- The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland
- Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?
- Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism
- Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
- Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland
- Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland
- Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast
- Appendices: Key Recommendations of
- 1 The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)
- 2 The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985)
- 3 The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)
- 4 The Downing Street Joint Declaration (December 1993)
- 5 The Framework Document (1995)
- 6 The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement (April 1998)
- 7 The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloom.eld, 1998)
- 8 The Patten Report (1999)
- 9 Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, 2002)
- Index
- Images
Summary
THE ORIGINS AND REMIT OF THE COMMISSION
Initial Announcement
1.1 The intention of establishing a Commission ‘to look at possible ways to recognise the pain and suffering felt by victims of violence arising from the troubles of the last 30 years, including those who have died or been injured in the service of the community’ was announced by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in Belfast on 24 October, 1997. It was made clear that this initiative had been discussed with the Prime Minister who, ‘from his discussions and meetings with people across Northern Ireland, felt that not enough attention had been paid to those who had suffered’. In announcing that I had been asked to lead such a Commission, Dr Mowlam noted that I had been asked ‘to have particular regard to the possibility of establishing a new memorial reflecting both the sorrows of the past and hope for a stable future’.
Terms of Reference
1.2 On 19 November 1997 the Secretary of State wrote to me with the following formal Terms of Reference:
‘To lead the Commission and to examine the feasibility of providing greater recognition for those who have become victims in the last thirty years as a consequence of events in Northern Ireland, recognising that those events have also had appalling repercussions for many people not living in Northern Ireland’
and asking me to consult various organisations concerned with the welfare of the bereaved and disabled, as well as with community groups, churches and political parties, and to make recommendations to her.
Ambit of the Review
1.3 In a subsequent lengthy discussion with the Secretary of State about the scope of the work, I was able to confirm that I could consider practical measures to deal with pain and suffering experienced by victims alongside the issue of a memorial project or scheme, and that I should of course acknowledge the special obligation owed by the State to people killed or injured in the course of protecting persons or property or in providing essential public services.
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- The Long Road to Peace in Northern IrelandPeace Lectures from the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University, pp. 276 - 279Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2007